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The Tortured Proteins Department, Episode 18

Stephanie Wankowicz
12 October 2026
tags: #podcast

Episode 18: Invisible String

We talk about ANOTHER big travel month, federal fights over science funding, preprints, and the intersection of AI and scientific discoveries.

News Links:

  • Inside the US military’s plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
  • New lawsuit accuses Trump administration of blocking NIH grants as form of censorship
  • Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control

Preprints:

  • De novo Rubisco design with protein language models
  • Optimizing the connectivity of protein conformations to untangle ensemble refinement

Other Links:

  • Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents
  • Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?

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